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Originally Posted by ohh_shesus
Ustwo, I see the jest, but I think it was a very poor choice of words. Especially today when media twists and turns every word a person says. I read through the Modest Proposal link that you posted and that seems to be a worse jest imo. I honestly think that it is horrible even to mention something like that. It seems today that instead of actually wanting to fix the problems, people want to overlook them or make a mockery of them. Poverty is a serious issue, as well as crime, and it is going to get worse unless someone makes an effort to find a possible solution instead of proposing ridiculous solutions to sound witty.
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I wouldn't call it a jest, satire does not need to be funny to be effective.
We had some people whos claim was that abortion lowers crime. Bennett wanted to point out the absurdity of the situation by stating a truth which was more horrible than the problem it was meant to fix. He carried the conclusion to the absurd in order to show it was absurd. He was absolutely correct in stating that aborting all black babies would lower crime rates after all. Was it a poor choice of words in todays climate? Yes, very, and the media enjoys such things as they can have a field day quoting out of context.
You miss the point entirely if you think Bennett just wanted to mock the problem with a ridiculous solution.